I have to say, Brian, relying on cloud support leaves your sensitive documents at the will of the hosts holding that data. This is a controversial issue, I know. They can say "anonymity', but is that the case in every situation? We truly do not know without full transparency. I will probably get flack for this post, but, I am just saying. Each person has their own opinion on cloud based support.
The issue with cloud storage is, if you have no internet connectivity, you have no access to your documents. I'd rather have all my documents on my personal system, with storage options now, you have no excuse to need cloud storage....hard drives, SSD's, and flash drives are very affordable, so you can throw another drive in your system purely for document storage, which is what I did with my machine....my laptop which was recently stolen, didn't effect any of my documents as I always had the documents on a flash drive that I carry with me. Long term storage for seldom accessed documents is on my desktop anyhow, I just carry the most common daily use documents around with me on my flash drive so I can access them whenever I need, whether at work, home, etc. Having things on the cloud may seem nice, but if you lose that access, your documents are gone forever, just as not having a backup of your home PC, when the hard drive fails you lose all that data....so the same is true for cloud access, change your password, and forget it, and you lose those documents anyways....plus its always wide open to data theft and black market sales....yep that stuff gets sold, no matter how many ads these cloud storage companies claim to be secure, how do you think they make their money...offering free storage, they're making money off your data on the black market, and sure they won't tell you that, otherwise they'd have no business at all. Get your data into your own hands and keep it there....your home PC is far more secure than you think, especially if you are keeping things backed up, and protected with passwords as you should be doing anyhow.
I found Libre Office is really good and has the ability for dark background and light text so you don't have that eyestrain you get with the standard look. 😊
Tip You can get around some document compatibility issues by printing to file and then opening the printed file in whatever program you want to edit it. This works well for extracting text from locked pdf documents, you can also use screen shots to extract images.
I'm retired and I don't need a full office suite these days so I use a stand alone word processor (Abiword) and spreadsheet (Gnumeric). They take up far less disk space than a full suite and are compatible with Microsoft file formats. I even used Gnumeric at work - I'm an accountant - when our standard work installation of MS Office was out of date and wouldn't open massive spreadsheet files created in a later version of Office used by a consultant. Gnumeric opened, edited and saved the file which was then perfectly usable by the consultant.
@@firstlast5350 I'll take your word for that. I've never been big on charts. That said, it does all the charts I need with simple line and bar graphs, pie charts and so forth.
@ I've never had to compile Gnumeric to use it on Windows. I've used it at work on Windows when our standard MS Office suite wouldn't open a spreadsheet from a consultant made with a newer version of Office. I used the version from the Portable Apps platform because our locked down systems meant I could not install software, so I just downloaded and ran it from Portable Apps. Easy.
Hi Brian, thank you for posting this video. I will be looking at a couple of these as I am just a home user and don't need to pay for all the features of Microsoft Office.
Try Libre Office. Is derived from OpenOffice, with the difference Libre is very well maintained, where OpenOffice is very poor maintained. The others are not so good.
i am libre office user almost 2 years now, i've tried only office wps , openoffice is old very old no updatealong time ago, but thanks for this awesome video i will try this free office and see how good it is. Btw excel from microsoft i why i have to use ms office still
I thought onlyoffice would have made your list. It is like free office and wps office but I say the best compatibility with ms formats. Also a very familiar user interface.
The only office alternative I have used is Libre Office but I still prefer Microsoft Office because it is industry standard but each to their own. Another fantastic video and review of Office Alternatives.
Personally Brian, I use Libra. I use it for writing e.g. letters, fan fic etc... Calc for creating tables and spreadsheets to keep track of bills etc... however I don't use or really trust cloud so I keep all my files on two flash drives any way. Why 2, just like they always say in IT, "remember to back it up". Used to use Open but it stopped spell checking so I switched a long while back to Libra. Libra does everything I need it to.
I don't do cloud storage either....and its much easier to just keep things locally stored with backups of course....and you know where your data is, unlike the cloud where it may be stored on several different servers, with some nice backdoor black market access/sells of your data that you'll never know about because those cloud marketing companies are never going to tell you they sell your data. Don't trust them whatsoever, and with the cost of storage devices being so affordable, there's no reason to use that cloud storage.
I tried OpenOffice years ago, but honestly the Google suite covers most everything fine, and is web based in Google Drive, which is convenient if you switch devices / systems a lot. I used Microsoft Access extensively for work before retiring, never found a decent alternative for it.
I'm still using Office 2001. Aside from a patch to read docx files, it's fine. Honestly, those programs haven't significantly changed in form or function in 20+ years, so why "upgrade?' In point of fact, at some point along the way, some mumbnuts decided it would be helpful for the title&menu bar to keep disappearing instead of staying visible. I consider 2001 to be a significant improvement over any of the successors.
What's a good office suite that also includes an alternative to Outlook? I know there are stand-alone alternatives like Thunderbird, but I like the simplicity of an all-in-one solution.
I'm a Linux and a Chromebook user. I use Libre Office on my Linux machine and on Chromebook I use Libre Office and Google docs. Google docs is quite good and I use it to share things like lists easily across my Android devices. I used Open Office for years. I use Libra Office now as it usually comes already loaded on Linux. I use Linux Mint and Debian. Also there's isn't anybads with Libra Office.
Nice to see linux as option on many software sites. Microsoft should offer it as defined by anti-trust laws in EU. And with Microsoft disabling Kernel level apps, goodbye to that linux bugbear kernel level anticheat software.
Thank you for the video. What about the people who use outlook? These software apps that you mentioned don't have an email app built in. I know there is Gmail and Thunderbird but are there any other free email apps available?
@Britec09 I though you said these replace Microsoft Office? I don't see any replacement for Outlook which is a Microsoft office product and is included with ever version of MS Office either standalone or 365.
The only problem I have with the free spreadsheets is that, from what I have seen, they are limited to 1024 columns. That will not be an issue for a great many who are looking for an Excel alternative, but it was an issue for me.
I've been using Softmaker's Planmaker. It's frustrating. I set the spreadsheet to the font I want, and it doesn't keep it. Any formatting gets dropped. I once used Apache Open Office and liked it, but when I had a question I found it had been discontinued. I'm confused by the info out there - has it been discontinued or not? When I left Open Office I tried Libre Office but didn't like it. I'd gladly go back to Open Office if it hasn't been discontinued.
I use Libra Office Writer. However, it hangs for ages if I edit a text only document more than around 300K. never found an answer, so may give Open Office a go.
I've found that Libra Office is very slow to open initially, and is quite sluggish in overall operation, even on a new PC its slower than it really should be....its also finicky on what it'll open and what it will edit regardless of file size. You get what you pay for with these free programs though.
LibreOffice supports a dialect of BASIC in its feature set. So does Open Office. They are both descendants of Star Office which had StarBASIC within it.
i tried a few alternatives a while back, for some reason i just couldn't get used to them, even though mostly they look pretty much the same, went back to microsoft office, currently using office 2021.
Libre office for me, I use it on several desktops & laptops etc even supports VBA scripting - makes a nice convenient way of packaging some of the little programs (written in basic) that I use as a development engineer. As it's free it means that I can install it on laptops etc when I need to without the I.T. & accounts departments gettig involved.
Im use Libre Office for years and is great as a free product, of course. You have paid nothing - no claims can be made. But if you abstract from the price - it's pretty unstable crap. If I leave open documents for 24 hours, when I come back to my computer, half of the time the whole packet (no matter if it's calc or writer or both) will be completely frozen, you can't even close them, you can only kill the task and restore all documents. But now I have just opened writer and it crashed twice in an hour. And the second time it did not restore the text maded in last hour. This is the last straw, I'd rather use a normal product than this free but complete rubbish.
Two issues that are not related at all: 1) Online/Cloud versions of MS Office are utter cr*p. The best was probably MS Office 2003, then it went downhill. 2) All those office free alternatives are good until you need something a bit more serious than a light work. Then you will be buried by compatibility issues. MS Access has no compatible alternative in these free versions of Office. 2nd issue suggests that the title of this video is A LIE.
Have my doubts about Open Office, not sure if it still is maintained. On Linux Mint I just use LibreOffice which works fine for my needs. Installed Microsoft fonts and documents looks the same and are editable between my Windows office and Linux set ups. Tried Only Office also. Looks nice as well but haven't used it much.
The posting clearly says you can use Office but not pay for it. You then go on to say, just don't use it. I saved $1,000,000 on my Ferrari by not buying it? Can't really say that.
One requirement one should have is, no cloud storage or cloud anything. That, and that alone, is why I have left all major software brands and settled for alternatives.
Wasn't open office bought over some years ago I remember some people saying not to use it because of spyware or something or other or was it someone's conspiracy theory?
@@john20100 Owned by Apache now. It's origin Star/Sun Microsystems StarOffice, then Oracle where it became OpenOffice. Hope not as Libre still uses parts of it. o
I tried most of those mentioned and found WPS to be the only one that sorta got fonts correctly spaced and doc layout to be closest to one made in MS OFFICE. It maybe free...but, if it can't open properly, and spaced as the original MS....you are really going to be frustrated!!!!😢
- to @Nelson_T : libre office supports macros in four different languages including python and VBA , which is what use it for.... I had a bunch of macros written in VBA that I ran inside excel spreadsheets , I now run them in libre office sheets instead.
When I first started using word, PowerPoint and excel, they each cost $99.00. Price has come down given office 365 or professional one time cost. Plus’s more people can use in household. Not considering the cost of privacy!
@@Britec09 The definition of clickbait (in Merriam-Webster) is "something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink". Your title is "Never Pay For Microsoft Office Software Again", which suggests that you can get Microsoft Office software for free. The thumbnail says "Stop paying 4 Office" and shows Microsoft file extensions. Looks like @DimpleDeBruyn has a point. I'm sure you didn't set out to mislead anyone, but you might want to think twice before snapping at someone like that in future.
@@Britec09 I've been viewing your channel awhile. I have learned much from you, which I truly appreciate, but I'm disappointed with your reply to @DimpieDeBruyn. There was nothing inappropriate with his initial complaint, as he made a valid point.
@TheRedPolyhedral The thumbnail says "Stop Paying 4 Office" the title says "Never Pay For Microsoft Office Software again" meaning stop buying Microsoft Office and use FREE. So as you see, the thumbnail and title delivers what's in the video. So no, its not clickbait. Go over to some of the top RUclipss and your see plenty of clickbait getting millions of views, this video has 12k views, so I would hardly say that's clickbait.
Awesome Thank you for Sharing! 💯✴ Nothing is free in this life. If it’s not costing money, it’s costing something else. If you got it for free! someone paid for it. Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. Usually your private credential to third-party seller without your knowledge!!
Libre office is better than Open Office in my opinion. But it's just my opinion. I don't like giving any $$$ to MicroSlop So glad I no longer need Windows or Office any longer.
If you work alone, or with people using the same alternative, go for it. Otherwise be ready to accept the fact several elements of the documents will be butchered as soon as you click on "save".
I used to use Libre Office many years ago, but went back to MS Office. I had upgraded Libre Office, and then all my documents were all unreadable than MS Office couldn’t read them - all garbage characters. I then decided to downgrade Libre Office to my previous versions with no luck in opening the documents.
I see that you block comments that point out flaws and are not useful to you. We have a saying "There is no good or bad advertising". You should also be open to criticism. I have been subscribed to your channel for years. But can you give me a reason to stay subscribed to the channel?
I do NOT block comments, what is blocked are URL because people spam and post nasty stuff. Also some nasty words are blocked. Also so you know, some comments get randomly block by RUclips. Hope this answers your question, I am sure I answered this before.
@@Britec09 This was my second comment. In your first comment I pointed out that you did not include OnlyOffice, the best free Office Software. I did not include a URL. It may be an omission, but as I said, there is no such thing as good or bad advertising. My comment was not published.
The bigger problem is that RUclips deletes comments even if there are no offensive words. I can attest that it happens to me frequently and finding which sentence causes the deletion is very time consuming and challenging.
I've used Microsoft's Office 365 (online version) for a few years now - which is very convenient and completely free. I can create any sort of Word.doc or Excel spreadsheet that I need by using it. Although it was a great comparison of different MS Office alternatives, using one of these would just be adding more clutter to my PC - when the online MS Office suite is readily available for free.
@@williamwallace9826 MS Office online does more than I'll ever need, in terms of Word and Excel. What's is really brain dead is to clutter up a PC with some product that I will never need....
Stay away. WPS Office nagging is very annoying. But one exceptionally annoying thing not mentioned here is a recent requirement to open an account with Kingsoft and login to use Office. You cannot use WPS office without a login. While not using sensitive data for account creation is an option, I'd still worry what goes behind the scene - unauthorized cloud file copies, selling credentials, etc. No. that was a deal breaker for me. Nagging alone was too bad. Now, with login, I would stay away from this product. Stay away. There are other viable options.
I particularly hate “Free” software that locks most of the functionality behind a paywall. Anything that pesters you with ads is especially abhorrent and I suspect a security risk, and I would never touch free cloud storage unless I wanted to say goodbye to all my privacy, places that can arrest people and seize assets capriciously are not somewhere you want anything to do with.
cloud storage is the worst service a program can offer. I only want to create and edit word, excel and powerpoint files. Don't care nor want cloud storage.
There are many software that create, and edit MS Office file formats, but... There's no "alternatives" or "replacement" of MS Office. ... Not really! Those are just some other software/office suite..... MS office has no replacement in terms of usability, features, user friendless and productivity.
Lack of Cloud storage is a Con?!?? I call it a plus!!
Thanks for the rundown.
It's great how you keep everyone up to date on new things and software that's out there. A big THANK YOU!
Our pleasure!
I have to say, Brian, relying on cloud support leaves your sensitive documents at the will of the hosts holding that data. This is a controversial issue, I know. They can say "anonymity', but is that the case in every situation? We truly do not know without full transparency. I will probably get flack for this post, but, I am just saying. Each person has their own opinion on cloud based support.
on planet earth... it is widely known that clouds disappear over time....
I agree 100%. I don't use any form of cloud storage. I simply don't trust any of them.
The issue with cloud storage is, if you have no internet connectivity, you have no access to your documents. I'd rather have all my documents on my personal system, with storage options now, you have no excuse to need cloud storage....hard drives, SSD's, and flash drives are very affordable, so you can throw another drive in your system purely for document storage, which is what I did with my machine....my laptop which was recently stolen, didn't effect any of my documents as I always had the documents on a flash drive that I carry with me. Long term storage for seldom accessed documents is on my desktop anyhow, I just carry the most common daily use documents around with me on my flash drive so I can access them whenever I need, whether at work, home, etc.
Having things on the cloud may seem nice, but if you lose that access, your documents are gone forever, just as not having a backup of your home PC, when the hard drive fails you lose all that data....so the same is true for cloud access, change your password, and forget it, and you lose those documents anyways....plus its always wide open to data theft and black market sales....yep that stuff gets sold, no matter how many ads these cloud storage companies claim to be secure, how do you think they make their money...offering free storage, they're making money off your data on the black market, and sure they won't tell you that, otherwise they'd have no business at all. Get your data into your own hands and keep it there....your home PC is far more secure than you think, especially if you are keeping things backed up, and protected with passwords as you should be doing anyhow.
@@wildbill23c I couldn't agree more. Common sense is the only thing we need and unfortunate there is very little of that any longer. 👍👍👍
I found Libre Office is really good and has the ability for dark background and light text so you don't have that eyestrain you get with the standard look. 😊
Yeah, its probably the best out of them all
This is my preferred suite. Been using it for years.
It's what I've used for a long time.
Libre Office FTW
Nope, OnlyOffice is much better, especially it's Excel equivalent.
Tip
You can get around some document compatibility issues by printing to file and then opening the printed file in whatever program you want to edit it.
This works well for extracting text from locked pdf documents, you can also use screen shots to extract images.
I'm retired and I don't need a full office suite these days so I use a stand alone word processor (Abiword) and spreadsheet (Gnumeric). They take up far less disk space than a full suite and are compatible with Microsoft file formats. I even used Gnumeric at work - I'm an accountant - when our standard work installation of MS Office was out of date and wouldn't open massive spreadsheet files created in a later version of Office used by a consultant. Gnumeric opened, edited and saved the file which was then perfectly usable by the consultant.
Gnumeric not so good for graphs.
@@firstlast5350 I'll take your word for that. I've never been big on charts. That said, it does all the charts I need with simple line and bar graphs, pie charts and so forth.
Gnumeric requires the user to compile it for use with Windows. Most people need a program they can just download and install.
@ I've never had to compile Gnumeric to use it on Windows. I've used it at work on Windows when our standard MS Office suite wouldn't open a spreadsheet from a consultant made with a newer version of Office.
I used the version from the Portable Apps platform because our locked down systems meant I could not install software, so I just downloaded and ran it from Portable Apps. Easy.
WPS can open password protected spreadsheets. Advertisements can be neutralized with airplane mode
I recommend OWTA-D Office Software. It's not only free, it's not only Open Source, but it keeps me OWTA D Office as much as possible.
Hi Brian, thank you for posting this video. I will be looking at a couple of these as I am just a home user and don't need to pay for all the features of Microsoft Office.
Glad it was helpful!
In my opinion Libre Office is the one to go for!
Try Libre Office. Is derived from OpenOffice, with the difference Libre is very well maintained, where OpenOffice is very poor maintained.
The others are not so good.
🙂 thanks for the reminder and the current recommended list
Any time!
Good video!
Cheers Tim
Power users use VBA . None of the others have it. Mostly a big deal for Excel.
i am libre office user almost 2 years now, i've tried only office wps , openoffice is old very old no updatealong time ago, but thanks for this awesome video i will try this free office and see how good it is. Btw excel from microsoft i why i have to use ms office still
Thanks for sharing
I thought onlyoffice would have made your list. It is like free office and wps office but I say the best compatibility with ms formats. Also a very familiar user interface.
OnlyOffice is OK, not really a definitive list I done, just a list of some of the best alternatives for office
The only office alternative I have used is Libre Office but I still prefer Microsoft Office because it is industry standard but each to their own. Another fantastic video and review of Office Alternatives.
I use Microsoft Office, used it for years.
I prefer Microsoft office but I switched to Libre Office this year. Sick of Microsoft having access to all of my documents and data.
You're not alone, me too
excellent video, so many options cool!
Thanks
@@Britec09 welcome :)
Personally Brian, I use Libra. I use it for writing e.g. letters, fan fic etc... Calc for creating tables and spreadsheets to keep track of bills etc... however I don't use or really trust cloud so I keep all my files on two flash drives any way. Why 2, just like they always say in IT, "remember to back it up". Used to use Open but it stopped spell checking so I switched a long while back to Libra. Libra does everything I need it to.
I don't do cloud storage either....and its much easier to just keep things locally stored with backups of course....and you know where your data is, unlike the cloud where it may be stored on several different servers, with some nice backdoor black market access/sells of your data that you'll never know about because those cloud marketing companies are never going to tell you they sell your data. Don't trust them whatsoever, and with the cost of storage devices being so affordable, there's no reason to use that cloud storage.
Libre Office works fine for me. MS fonts can be installed for Linux.
I tried OpenOffice years ago, but honestly the Google suite covers most everything fine, and is web based in Google Drive, which is convenient if you switch devices / systems a lot.
I used Microsoft Access extensively for work before retiring, never found a decent alternative for it.
LibreOffice is the perfect alternative, though it uses another formulas for Calc than Excel uses. It also has the perfect Acces equivalent (--> Base).
I'm still using Office 2001. Aside from a patch to read docx files, it's fine.
Honestly, those programs haven't significantly changed in form or function in 20+ years, so why "upgrade?'
In point of fact, at some point along the way, some mumbnuts decided it would be helpful for the title&menu bar to keep disappearing instead of staying visible. I consider 2001 to be a significant improvement over any of the successors.
What's a good office suite that also includes an alternative to Outlook? I know there are stand-alone alternatives like Thunderbird, but I like the simplicity of an all-in-one solution.
There isn't one.
I'm a Linux and a Chromebook user. I use Libre Office on my Linux machine and on Chromebook I use Libre Office and Google docs. Google docs is quite good and I use it to share things like lists easily across my Android devices. I used Open Office for years. I use Libra Office now as it usually comes already loaded on Linux. I use Linux Mint and Debian. Also there's isn't anybads with Libra Office.
Nice to see linux as option on many software sites. Microsoft should offer it as defined by anti-trust laws in EU. And with Microsoft disabling Kernel level apps, goodbye to that linux bugbear kernel level anticheat software.
Thank you for the video. What about the people who use outlook? These software apps that you mentioned don't have an email app built in. I know there is Gmail and Thunderbird but are there any other free email apps available?
On the whole, Free Office is the best of these. Very good spreadsheet but its English dictionary is seriously lacking.
@Britec09 I though you said these replace Microsoft Office? I don't see any replacement for Outlook which is a Microsoft office product and is included with ever version of MS Office either standalone or 365.
Open office and Libre Office are usually included into some Linux distros
The only problem I have with the free spreadsheets is that, from what I have seen, they are limited to 1024 columns. That will not be an issue for a great many who are looking for an Excel alternative, but it was an issue for me.
LibreOfficeCalc has up to 16,384 columns.
I've been using Softmaker's Planmaker. It's frustrating. I set the spreadsheet to the font I want, and it doesn't keep it. Any formatting gets dropped. I once used Apache Open Office and liked it, but when I had a question I found it had been discontinued. I'm confused by the info out there - has it been discontinued or not? When I left Open Office I tried Libre Office but didn't like it. I'd gladly go back to Open Office if it hasn't been discontinued.
I use Libra Office Writer. However, it hangs for ages if I edit a text only document more than around 300K. never found an answer, so may give Open Office a go.
I've found that Libra Office is very slow to open initially, and is quite sluggish in overall operation, even on a new PC its slower than it really should be....its also finicky on what it'll open and what it will edit regardless of file size. You get what you pay for with these free programs though.
good video. i am going to try nr 3
Do any of these offer an equivalent of VBA? Especially for spreadsheets.
LibreOffice supports a dialect of BASIC in its feature set. So does Open Office. They are both descendants of Star Office which had StarBASIC within it.
@@MSHarvey_Lyricsmith Thank you. I'll definitely check them out then.
i tried a few alternatives a while back, for some reason i just couldn't get used to them, even though mostly they look pretty much the same, went back to microsoft office, currently using office 2021.
I still use Microsoft Office 2021
Libre office for me, I use it on several desktops & laptops etc even supports VBA scripting - makes a nice convenient way of packaging some of the little programs (written in basic) that I use as a development engineer. As it's free it means that I can install it on laptops etc when I need to without the I.T. & accounts departments gettig involved.
Im use Libre Office for years and is great as a free product, of course. You have paid nothing - no claims can be made.
But if you abstract from the price - it's pretty unstable crap. If I leave open documents for 24 hours, when I come back to my computer, half of the time the whole packet (no matter if it's calc or writer or both) will be completely frozen, you can't even close them, you can only kill the task and restore all documents.
But now I have just opened writer and it crashed twice in an hour. And the second time it did not restore the text maded in last hour.
This is the last straw, I'd rather use a normal product than this free but complete rubbish.
Only Office, 'nuff said. Brilliant software.
Thanks for sharing
Yep. OnlyOffice, with Seafile for my own 'cloud' storage.
Which alternative supports Excel Macros?
and uses VBA?
LibreOffice, but is not exactly VBA, is something similar
@@WrzesinskiMarcin Preferably yes but I could also explore other options. I have Linux Mint
Two issues that are not related at all:
1) Online/Cloud versions of MS Office are utter cr*p. The best was probably MS Office 2003, then it went downhill.
2) All those office free alternatives are good until you need something a bit more serious than a light work. Then you will be buried by compatibility issues. MS Access has no compatible alternative in these free versions of Office.
2nd issue suggests that the title of this video is A LIE.
I use libre office I had Microscam office suite years ago, I possibly have the disc somewhere lying about.
Thanks for sharing
So only the one has free cloud support do any have multi user use at same time .
Great video sharing Brother
Thanks for the visit
I would have liked to hear whether or not saving in PDF is an option in these office suites.
Save as / export to PDF is possible in Open Office, Libre Office, and FreeOffice.
Have my doubts about Open Office, not sure if it still is maintained. On Linux Mint I just use LibreOffice which works fine for my needs. Installed Microsoft fonts and documents looks the same and are editable between my Windows office and Linux set ups. Tried Only Office also. Looks nice as well but haven't used it much.
Maybe should of put OnlyOffice in its place
The posting clearly says you can use Office but not pay for it. You then go on to say, just don't use it. I saved $1,000,000 on my Ferrari by not buying it? Can't really say that.
I use Microsoft publisher, and the alternative is??
I think Microsoft publisher has been discontinued by Microsoft
@@Britec09 It hasn't been discontinued yet. It will be discontinued on October 13, 2026.
call your mom and ask her
You are probably stuck with Scribus, or Affinity Publisher (6 month free trial)
Man Microsoft Publisher? That is a special breed of masochist.
One requirement one should have is, no cloud storage or cloud anything.
That, and that alone, is why I have left all major software brands and settled for alternatives.
Hmm, is OpenOffice still maintained ?
Not sure
There was a Dev update in April 2024 but the last release was December 2023
Wasn't open office bought over some years ago I remember some people saying not to use it because of spyware or something or other or was it someone's conspiracy theory?
@@john20100 Owned by Apache now. It's origin Star/Sun Microsystems StarOffice, then Oracle where it became OpenOffice. Hope not as Libre still uses parts of it.
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probably, but this programs is updated once per year (or once in 2 years).
LibreOffice gets like 6 updates per year.
I tried most of those mentioned and found WPS to be the only one that sorta got fonts correctly spaced and doc layout to be closest to one made in MS OFFICE.
It maybe free...but, if it can't open properly, and spaced as the original MS....you are really going to be frustrated!!!!😢
🏆⭐🙏🤗
Thank you for sharing this
You're welcome
I yet have to find one that can use Marcos. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching!
- to @Nelson_T : libre office supports macros in four different languages including python and VBA , which is what use it for.... I had a bunch of macros written in VBA that I ran inside excel spreadsheets , I now run them in libre office sheets instead.
I have use open office for years very good but I also have an iso for windows office 2010 which does let me do most th
Could you make a video about best web design software next? Thanks
When I first started using word, PowerPoint and excel, they each cost $99.00. Price has come down given office 365 or professional one time cost. Plus’s more people can use in household. Not considering the cost of privacy!
I have used only office and it’s not bad
i just found office version older than 2003 that look similar and you can put any key for them. They do not have ribbon based menu.
I like to alternative for Microsoft Outlook.
eM Client.
Libre Office every time (Also Linux - we're a Microsoft-free sone and have been for years).
Ever used MAS? Massgrave Microsoft Activation Scripts?
Can it be used on iPad?
FreeOffice can be used on an iPad.
"Best free alternatives ...." is the title you were looking for instead of that clickbait one 🤦♂
Learn what clickbait is, because you have no clue on what your talking about. Thumbnail says what's in the video.
@@Britec09 The definition of clickbait (in Merriam-Webster) is "something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink". Your title is "Never Pay For Microsoft Office Software Again", which suggests that you can get Microsoft Office software for free. The thumbnail says "Stop paying 4 Office" and shows Microsoft file extensions. Looks like @DimpleDeBruyn has a point. I'm sure you didn't set out to mislead anyone, but you might want to think twice before snapping at someone like that in future.
@@Britec09 I've been viewing your channel awhile. I have learned much from you, which I truly appreciate, but I'm disappointed with your reply to @DimpieDeBruyn. There was nothing inappropriate with his initial complaint, as he made a valid point.
@TheRedPolyhedral The thumbnail says "Stop Paying 4 Office" the title says "Never Pay For Microsoft Office Software again" meaning stop buying Microsoft Office and use FREE. So as you see, the thumbnail and title delivers what's in the video. So no, its not clickbait. Go over to some of the top RUclipss and your see plenty of clickbait getting millions of views, this video has 12k views, so I would hardly say that's clickbait.
@@Britec09 You can permanently activate MS Office for free quite easily, so I can see why some may see that as clickbait.
Do any of these work on iPad?
Softmaker’s Textmaker and Planmaker work beautifully on IPad… free
@@leondevries478 🤠 Thank you Leon 👍
Awesome Thank you for Sharing! 💯✴
Nothing is free in this life.
If it’s not costing money, it’s costing something else.
If you got it for free! someone paid for it.
Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for.
Usually your private credential to third-party seller
without your knowledge!!
I switched to SoftMaker Office - GDPR-compatible to a low price...
I like Libre office myself.
Libre office is better than Open Office in my opinion. But it's just my opinion. I don't like giving any $$$ to MicroSlop So glad I no longer need Windows or Office any longer.
Some of these require Java to be installed as a running service. That is a deal breaker--I haven't allowed Java on my system since the 90's
yes i pay every month of october for it a excellent free alternative is libre office the most popular
I would say its the go to software for lots of people and companies
@@Britec09yes indeed out of all the ones you mentioned libre office is the top pic for most
If you work alone, or with people using the same alternative, go for it.
Otherwise be ready to accept the fact several elements of the documents will be butchered as soon as you click on "save".
Also still no outlook alternative other than thunderbird.
eM Client
Openoffice not have much formulas and function like Libreoffice.
You missed essential office.
Thanks, there are a few others
Im using only office
Any good?
@@Britec09 no problems. Any format can open and edit. I dont need cloud services
6. I bought Microsoft Office once in 2007. I have it on a spare offline computer. I never pay for Microsoft Office again. 🤑
I used to use Libre Office many years ago, but went back to MS Office. I had upgraded Libre Office, and then all my documents were all unreadable than MS Office couldn’t read them - all garbage characters. I then decided to downgrade Libre Office to my previous versions with no luck in opening the documents.
Open office is dead. Libre office is a fork of it use that instead. Alternatively Onlyoffice. Both foss.
I see that you block comments that point out flaws and are not useful to you. We have a saying "There is no good or bad advertising". You should also be open to criticism. I have been subscribed to your channel for years. But can you give me a reason to stay subscribed to the channel?
I do NOT block comments, what is blocked are URL because people spam and post nasty stuff. Also some nasty words are blocked. Also so you know, some comments get randomly block by RUclips. Hope this answers your question, I am sure I answered this before.
@@Britec09 This was my second comment. In your first comment I pointed out that you did not include OnlyOffice, the best free Office Software. I did not include a URL. It may be an omission, but as I said, there is no such thing as good or bad advertising. My comment was not published.
The bigger problem is that RUclips deletes comments even if there are no offensive words. I can attest that it happens to me frequently and finding which sentence causes the deletion is very time consuming and challenging.
Well for me it's office cracked edition.
Just use MassGrave????
Only Office is also a good alternative. MS Office online & Google Docs are considerable.
I've used Microsoft's Office 365 (online version) for a few years now - which is very convenient and completely free. I can create any sort of Word.doc or Excel spreadsheet that I need by using it.
Although it was a great comparison of different MS Office alternatives, using one of these would just be adding more clutter to my PC - when the online MS Office suite is readily available for free.
Compared to any of these suites, the on-line versions of MS Office are brain dead.
@@williamwallace9826 MS Office online does more than I'll ever need, in terms of Word and Excel.
What's is really brain dead is to clutter up a PC with some product that I will never need....
Yeah, right, after 10 days if I ask you "what do you use as an Office Suite?" - you're still defaulting to Microsoft's apps.
Outlook ?😢😢
Clickbait THUMBNAIL! Welcome to RUclips 2024.
Learn what clickbait is.
Stay away. WPS Office nagging is very annoying. But one exceptionally annoying thing not mentioned here is a recent requirement to open an account with Kingsoft and login to use Office. You cannot use WPS office without a login. While not using sensitive data for account creation is an option, I'd still worry what goes behind the scene - unauthorized cloud file copies, selling credentials, etc. No. that was a deal breaker for me. Nagging alone was too bad. Now, with login, I would stay away from this product. Stay away. There are other viable options.
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I particularly hate “Free” software that locks most of the functionality behind a paywall.
Anything that pesters you with ads is especially abhorrent and I suspect a security risk, and I would never touch free cloud storage unless I wanted to say goodbye to all my privacy, places that can arrest people and seize assets capriciously are not somewhere you want anything to do with.
Thats not the case with LibreOffice, and OpenOffice.
cloud storage is the worst service a program can offer. I only want to create and edit word, excel and powerpoint files. Don't care nor want cloud storage.
I just get a licence key for £16 no problem
It's easy to permanently activate it for free. The script is open-source too.
@@Jon717 do tell me more 👂🏼
@@ArthurTugwell Massgrave
microprokey
What you guys? 😅
As weLL.
Yeah, get libre office
Only office is great
Yes it is OK
OnlyOffice
LibreOffice & OnlyOffice to the moon. Everything else is kinda shit ngl.
P.S. Btw you didn't mention OnlyOffice in the video
I use official office yet cracked. I never paid for any software in my life. 😅
Cracking software is risky and full of malware
@@Britec09no, ohook activation is safe
just microsoft tool to activate, 2 mins job
There are many software that create, and edit MS Office file formats, but... There's no "alternatives" or "replacement" of MS Office. ... Not really! Those are just some other software/office suite..... MS office has no replacement in terms of usability, features, user friendless and productivity.
I'm pretty sure WPS office is Chinese spyware.
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